# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hunter-q505981
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:06:27.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hunter-q505981"
name: "John Hunter"
slug: "john-hunter-q505981"
description: "John Hunter was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. His wife, Anne Hunter (née Home), was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn."
tagline: "Scottish surgeon (1728-1793)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Hunter_by_John_Jackson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1728-02-13"
deathDate: "1793-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.12381466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 250
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump